The Borg doesn't answer, but Lucien does: "I'd guess it's for the same reason it focuses on Hemmia's home for assimilation: demoralizing its captures."

"Uh, her home is not in immediate danger of assimilation, a lot of people died but we managed to stop the assimilation of that planet. It's one of a very small number of times we've managed that."

"Is that how this one came to be captured?"

"Mhm - she was a friend of a member of the Amalien away team on the planet and part of a mission to deliver a warp bomb to an early base of the Borg on her planet. She was only supposed to manage logistics but when a driver on the mission backed out she took his place."

"Why are you willing to talk to me at all?" Isabella asks the Borg.

"This unit will inform future borg of the inevitably of their assimilation. Resistance is futile."

"I might like to start carrying a method of suicide," Isabella tells Lucien.

"We have those." says Lucien confidently, as tears continue to come out of his eyes.

"If everyone everywhere were assimilated," Isabella says to the Borg, "what would the Borg do next?"

The borg doesn't volunteer an answer.

"Do Borg make more Borg by themselves?"

"We don't think so, though they might leave some survivors in areas they have established control over in order to hav ea future source of Borg. We aren't sure - they haven't gotten to that point in our corner of the galaxy."

"Who would have children under these conditions - I suppose perhaps they just farm them -"

"We don't know - it's possible they farm them but it's also possible that the people don't have enough of a functioning society to be properly aware of what's going on."

"Where did the Borg come from originally?" It's ambiguous if she's talking to him or the Borg.

The borg doesn't answer, so Lucien tries his best "We're not sure - they're from the otherside of the galaxy and are only here now because of the wormhole, so we only have so much to go on. Our best guess is a species cybernetically enhanced themselves and then someone invented a sort of virus that took over the cybernetic enhancements and got out of control."

"What possible motive...?"

"Mutually assured destruction or something they thought was targeted but turned out not to be."

"What would you do," she asks the Borg, "if you got out of that cell?"

"You will be assimilated."

"Right, but if you got out of there and assimilated me, presumably you and I would both be recaptured at once. What would that get you?"

"All of you will be assimilated."

"Are you going to recommend I don't carry a method of suicide?"

"Resistance is futile."

"What, can you assimilate corpses?"

The borg has no answer.